Service projects central to annual event
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Dakota Wesleyan University students, staff and faculty took part in DWU Cares recently. The annual event sees representatives from the school performing service projects throughout the community, such as picking up trash on Cabela Drive. (Submitted Photo)
The annual Dakota Wesleyan University Cares event, a combination of the former Great Wesleyan Giveback and A Day for Wesleyan events, was held May 4-5.
The service project spans two days for students, faculty and staff to fan out across the Mitchell community performing service projects preceding the annual online event designed to raise money for the Wesleyan Scholarship Fund.
CADILLAC â This spring is shaping up to be pretty odd.
With precipitation levels a fraction of what they typically are this time of year, farmers are beginning to stir anxiously as planting season draws near.
At the same time, owners of homes on area lakes and rivers also have noticed how low water levels are at a time when they re usually thinking about flood risk.
Accuweather Senior Meteorologist Paul Walker said while average temperatures for the Cadillac area about 2.8 degrees above normal for April, the area s received only about half of its normal precipitation amounts.
Temperatures swung dramatically Monday night into Tuesday morning, rising from the low 30s to near the 70 degree mark in a little over 24 hours.
CADILLAC â In a normal year, the dam on the Clam River near Lake Cadillac would still be open, with water from lakes Mitchell and Cadillac spilling into the blue-ribbon trout stream.
But the dam has been closed for more than a month now, Wexford County Drain Commissioner Mike Solomon said.
Closing the dam early is one of the few tools at Solomon s disposal to bring lake levels up in time for the summer boating season. Ultimately, lake levels are a reflection of rainfall, Solomon told the Cadillac News by phone.
In an upcoming letter to the Lake Mitchell Improvement Board, Solomon wrote, During 2020, we had 34.01 inches of total precipitation, compared to our annual average over the past 30-years of 35.45 inches. So, our precipitation amount in 2020 was about 1.5 inches below the average and then we received very low snow amounts for the first three months of 2020.
April 27, 1921
Deluded purchasers of lots in the Boulevard Beach Subdivision across Lake Mitchell, with the coming of spring, still are being heard from in various distant cities where the promoters may again be active. The officers of the company, however, are under indictment in the federal courts in Tennessee where the government brought action following exposure of the scheme by Cadillac officials. It was hoped here that exploitation of these swampy lands would be broken up with the court action. None of the improvements pictured in the literature of the promoters have been made and there evidently is no intention of developing the property. For the good name of Cadillac local officers will continue to fight the scheme, considering the lots valueless.
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